PolitiFact: Are Wisconsin wages lower under Scott Walker than under predecessor Jim Doyle?

Tom Kertscher
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Ahead of Gov. Scott Walker's re-election announcement, Democratic challenger Matt Flynn attacked by saying that under the two-term Republican incumbent, “average wages, when adjusted for inflation, are lower today than they were under Jim Doyle.”

Doyle, a Democrat and a two-term governor himself, was Walker's predecessor.

PolitiFact Wisconsin finds that a key point is whether you mean average as in the mean, or average as in typical.